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There are a few reasons why, but perhaps the most relevant is that there is a much better version of Pikachu, and you will want that out on the table if you can have it

Sparkling Crystal and Area Zero Underdepths offer fantastic synergy with Terapagos ex, cutting Energy requirements and increasing Unified Beatdowns damage, while Crispin offers an almost complete Energy set-up in one card

Its Damage Swap Poke-Power made it a staple of early competitive decks, enabling some of the most creative strategies the game had seen in its infancy

If that player has somehow become an illegal target for the ability as it tries to resolve, the ability does nothing